Barry's vs Lyons

Irishcrx

Enough!...Barry's tea is clearly the superier tea here , I love it's golden texture, it's warm flavour...it's a man's tea and it doesn't need so many ad's on TV to convince us , it knows it's the superier brand. You'll only find Barry's tea in my house , Lyons is banned....so let's have it....

Barrys....

VS


Lyons.....:D

Boards.ie Heavyweight Irish Tea Championship

Duggy747

Maxwell House

Mr E

Bewleys or M&S Breakfast Blend for me.
Barrys leaves a bitter after taste IMO.

Antar Bolaeisk

Clearly Barry's Gold Blend, everything else pales in comparison. (unless it's Earl Grey, of the hot kind).

admiralofthefleet

robert roberts

Grayson

On the rare occasion I drink tea, it's barry's. Otherwise it's 10 cups of coffee a day.

Sergeant

Barry's tastes more of tea and less of dust, thin paper and glue.

DenMan

Dunnes tea is great!

PaulieC

Irishcrx wrote: »

I love it's golden texture, it's warm flavour...

1) golden texture ? really ? can you actually have colourful textures ?

2) warm flavor ? again, can something smell or taste warm ?

Did you imbibe some marketing guff along with your tea ?

missingtime

McGrath's Tea in Aldi is very nice.

mike65

That pack in Lidl that looks a bit like Barrys or Lyons

syklops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab0-T0KkJzY

Says it all.

Nolimits12

Worked in a place where I was the only one out of twelve staff that liked barrys (it was a family business so that could have been why). They never bought barrys only stupid huge boxes of stupid lyons. It just wasnt the same..

flanders1979

earl grey. tastes like washing up liquid but it grows on you after a bit

iDave

Bought a tin of tea from Harrods 2 years ago. All tea since has been a dissapointment

mr bungle.

missingtime wrote: »

McGrath's Tea in Aldi is very nice.

have to agree with you on that.i was a nothing but Barrys tea drinker.but mc graths tea is just as nice as Barrys,if not better.

Synyster Shadow

Tetley tea

Judgement Day

I like tea and can/have drink anything from the finest to the stuff made in can over a fire and needing a fork to consume! However, given that my body's a temple, albeit a fairly decrepit one, I try to drink nothing but organic tea these days. Clipper http://www.clipper-teas.com/our-drinks/tea/fairtrade-everyday-tea is my current poison and at €3.54 for 40 teabags it's quite expensive but better for me and the planet. Rant over.

Kylo Ren

I love Barry.

Annasopra

Coffee

semper fi or dye

lyons

Chuck Stone

There's a Punjana enclave in Leitrim the mad bastards.

The Road Runner

barrys gold blend

snubbleste

McGraths vs. the rest of them

Mycroft H

Punjana, Barry's Classic Blend, Robert Roberts Kenyan.

However. Cambell's Loose Leaf. Forget everything in bags.

rainbow kirby

In bags - Twinings Earl Grey or Numi Golden Chai. Barrys and Lyons are total shít.

scart

Lyons all the way......Barrys tea bags are manufactured in Manchester UK

Mycroft H

scart wrote: »

Lyons all the way......Barrys tea bags are manufactured in Manchester UK

Really? They have a place down in Cork.

b318isp

scart wrote: »

Lyons all the way......Barrys tea bags are manufactured in Manchester UK

Lyons is made in Trafford Park near Manchester.

Luap

Luaps Gold Blend.

Son Of A Vidic

Irishcrx wrote: »

Lyons or Barry's tea?

Both are píss, but Bewleys is just quality.

Rasheed

Barry's loose tea. The only job.

uch

I like Ice T

Barry's Gold blend by a mile over any other tea.

Cienciano

I have to do a taste test on both of them someday. At the moment it's Lyons.
But those Barrys Tea ads actually make me cringe they're so bad.

admiralofthefleet

would anyone be willing to try the tea made from cats shite?

kowloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2IJdfxWtPM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

would anyone be willing to try the tea made from cats shite?

Sure you're not talking about the celot coffee? Read about how those Ocelots get treated. Even if the idea of catsh1t coffee appealed to me I don't think I could have it. Also, it's really expensive.

3ndahalfof6

Will the winner get a shot at Klitschko.

ArtyC

love my triangular tea bags me

Seaneh

scart wrote: »

Lyons all the way......Barrys tea bags are manufactured in Manchester UK

Er, you have it the wrong way around.

Barry's is Irish owned, operated and produced in Cork, Lyons is made by Unilever in Manchester.

BeardySi

Barrys! Unless I can't be arsed trekking all the way to Dunnes for it (only stockist hereabouts) in which case it's Thompson's Irish breakfast or good old Yorkshire Tea!

SEPT 23 1989

No Dublin person drinks Barrys do they?

Moll'll fix it

missingtime wrote: »

McGrath's Tea in Aldi is very nice.

My sister tells me she heard on the radio some time ago that Barrys produced McGraths Tea in Aldi

qwert2

Barrys Gold blend. It's a good cup of tea

Catari Jaguar

Lyons has ads?? I know it used to have those minstrel dancers. Tad racist. Is Barry's not those fukn golden moments sap and emmigration and "is this a date?" TV ads? The *insert name here*'s tea, and at Christmas; "Rudolph's tea" bus ads? I refuse to buy Barry's based on the ad campaigns.

Catari Jaguar

Seaneh wrote: »

Er, you have it the wrong way around.

Barry's is Irish owned, operated and produced in Cork, Lyons is made by Unilever in Manchester.

Yes, but from 1902 - 1996 Lyons was Irish owned. Their pioneeering in the introduction of the round tea bag captured 65% of the Irish tea market. No wonder Unilever snapped them up.

Moll'll fix it

Lyons Tea sponsor Joe Duffy's Liveline programme, something about putting the talk into tea

Mr_Spaceman

It's got to be Ulster's finest tay for me - Nambarrie.

Lawrence1895

Green Tea with Jasmine or Vanilla Flavour :cool:

pvt6zh395dqbrj

I have a problem with either Barry's or Lyon's tea. The problem is that there is an ad where two people: A Human Male and a Human Female are talking directly to camera one by one. They are discussing how they first met. Anyway, the woman says, at the end, "So I texted him and said "Is this a date?" And he replied "I dunno, is this?"".

Now, what moron replies "I dunno, is this?" and not "I dunno, is it?". I hate that ad. Hate hate hate it. I hate it more than I hate the deranged look on the faces of the ethnic people I scream at when they won't tell me the correct time. They HAVE watches by the way I don't make un-attainable demands of these people.

Why must we decide between teas? Can we not just consume tea for its basic purpose which is to disguise the manner in which we take drugs and then get on with the business of creating a new Ireland free of economic woes??? Can't we???

Madam_X

Lyons.

Barrys has a horrible after-taste IMO and I hate the ads!

I know that ad and I hate it too, but she says "Is it?" but pronounces "it" as "iss" in a kinda "I'm coy yet sexy and a bit ditzy so I'm mispronouncing t" way.